<174>=Let's go, Tomiyama!!=We're going to save the Earth!!=Stupidity never stops, does it.

=ZWISH

[x7]=ZWISH

<175>=Ohh, that thing?=I checked it out for you.

=A-A-A-A-And...=Th-Th-Th-The result...?

=Where'd you find it?=This "salt?"

=Th-Th-That's a little...=I-I-It's confidential...

=Hmm...=*glance*

<176>=Are you really a detective?=Huh?

=You're soooooo cute.

="...Rock salt,"=Is totally different from the everyday sea salt you can find at the grocery store.

=A lo—ng time ago, land that used to be part of the ocean dried up after rising up from the Earth's crust.=That salt content crystallized over millions of millions of years to form these minerals...=So it's basically a type of fossil.

=That's why the composition of the minerals differ depending on where it was excavated.=And some end up on the kitchen table, while others get sold in stores like mine...

<177>=S-S-S-So, umm...//Wh-Wh-Wh-What about this "salt...?"

=It's incredibly valuable.=It's not even from this planet.

=Huh?

<179>=In 1998, a meteorite landed in Zag, Morocco.=They called it the Zag meteorite.

=This meteorite contained crystals of "rock salt."

=An analysis revealed that it was the seawater remnants...=Of a small planet that existed 4.5 billion years ago...